CE 576 - Masonry Design
Catalog Description
Clay and concrete masonry materials; unreinforced masonry design; reinforced masonry design; seismic behavior of masonry structures.3 credit hours (lecture)
Prerequisites
- ce471
Schedule
| Spring, 2011 | : | X |
Textbooks and Resources
Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures (TMS502-08/ACI 530-08/ASCE 5-08) and Commentary; Specifications for Masonry Structures (ACI 530.1-08/ASCE 6-08/TMS 602-08) and CommentaryCourse Objective
- Become familiar with basic masonry materials, including clay brick, concrete block, mortar, grout, and reinforcing accessories.
- Be able to analyze and design unreinforced masonry structures using engineering methods.
- Understand the behavior of reinforced masonry structures, and be able to design for flexure, shear, axial forces, combined flexure and axial forces, and in-plane shear forces.
- Learn the methods of masonry construction and detailing practices, particularly with respect to the prescriptive seismic requirements.
- Completely design a small one-story masonry load-bearing wall structure.
Topics
- Introduction (1 class period)
- Clay and Concrete Masonry (2 class periods)
- Mortar and Grout (1 class period)
- Constitutive Properties (1 class period)
- Specifications (2 class periods)
- Unreinforced Masonry Design (3 class periods)
- Reinforced Masonry Design: Flexure (3 class periods)
- Reinforced Masonry: Bending and Axial Load (4 classes periods)
- Reinforced Masonry Design: Shear Walls (4 class periods)
- Prescriptive Seismic Requirements (1 class period)
- Structural Details (1 class period)
- Field trip (brick plant, block plant, construction site) (1 class period)
- Review (2 class periods)
- Exam (2 class periods + final exam)
Professional Component
Relationship to Program Objectives
Last update: Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:36 am by rbennet2